Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday expressed regret that the state government has not yet received a single paisa from the Centre to combat floods in the state. She addressed the media in Siliguri after holding an administrative review ...
30 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Tea Workers’ Protection Committee (Chiya Shramik Suraksha Samiti) in Darjeeling has called for an indefinite bandh in the Hills starting Monday after the tripartite meeting convened by the Labour Department ended inconclusively today over the demand for a ...
30 September 2024 The StatesmanA major fire broke out at Siliguri’s Bidhan Market around 10 am today, devastating at least 15 shops and partially damaging eight others. With the Puja season approaching, shop owners have expressed their frustration over the inability to save ...
29 September 2024 The StatesmanAhead of chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s visit to Siliguri, Darjeeling MP Raju Bista has called for her intervention in resolving the ongoing bonus dispute in Darjeeling tea plantations, under the jurisdiction of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA).According to official ...
29 September 2024 The StatesmanThe BJP today launched a fierce attack on the Trinamul and the INDIA bloc, raising the issue of administrative non-cooperation in the case of rape of an IAS officer’s wife in the Lake police station area. National leader and ...
29 September 2024 The StatesmanIn a successful operation under Operation Satark, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) at Jasidih post apprehended an individual engaged in the illegal transportation of foreign liquor at Jasidih railway station, under Asansol division of Eastern Railway. The operation, led ...
29 September 2024 The StatesmanFor the first time since the past 20 years, there will be no daily bhog distribution in the Durga Puja of the ancestral house of Anubrata Mondal in Hatserandi village due to severe financial crunch.Recently, Anubrata Mondal and his ...
29 September 2024 The StatesmanA headmaster of a local girl’s school has been arrested after complaints of physical harassment.Sources said that the accused headmaster used to molest girl students and used to call them as darling and even chased them towards the toilet. ...
29 September 2024 The StatesmanPeerless Hospital organized its flagship one-day conference, MediSafeCon 2024, with the theme “Get it Right, Make it Safe,” focused on increasing awareness about accurate diagnosis and the use of appropriate therapeutics. Diagnostic errors, such as missed, delayed, or incorrect ...
29 September 2024 The StatesmanEven in war with Ukraine, Russia didn’t choose to deploy supersonic cruise missiles that possibly prompted the domestic developer here to expedite the NG (next generation) variant of the ‘fastest’ lethal weapon on earth, one of the key scientists ...
29 September 2024 The StatesmanAfter a tribal housewife complained of sexual assault, a civic volunteer was arrested by the police in Ausgram in East Burdwan today.Sheikh Rahamatullah, the accused, allegedly had intruded into the house of the 32-year-old housewife last night when she ...
29 September 2024 The StatesmanA special court in Kolkata will hear on 30 September Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) plea for narco-analysis of the former controversial principal of R G Kar Medical College & Hospital in connection with rape-murder of a junior doctor ...
29 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Panchet dam in the upper eastern valley of the Damodar river further has scaled up its discharge by 7,000 cusecs today leading to the combined discharge by the upper dams to 33,000 cusecs that has left the lower ...
28 September 2024 The StatesmanAbhishek Chowdhury, secretary, Travel Operators Welfare Association urged the various agencies working in the tourism sector to come under one umbrella to enhance the flow of international and domestic tourists.He was addressing a gathering at Nehru Children’s Museum to ...
28 September 2024 The StatesmanPutting efforts to enable jerk-free journeys to passengers, the engineering department of the Howrah division, under the Eastern Railway, corrected 24, 24 forced layout of points and crossings over the division in four months. According to the ER, the ...
28 September 2024 The StatesmanOn World Tourism Day today, the Union ministry of tourism has launched Paryatan Mitra and Paryatan Didi, responsible tourism initiatives in 50 places across the country, including two tourism destinations in West Bengal, Kolkata and Darjeeling.Through this initiative, the ...
28 September 2024 The StatesmanIn a step towards enhancing the safety and empowerment of women and youth in India’s tea sector, the Women’s Safety Accelerator Fund (WSAF) 2.0 was launched in the city today.The first phase of the programme reached 321 tea estates ...
28 September 2024 The StatesmanThe latest circular by the city police banning illegal assembly of more than five people in areas between Bowbazar police station, Hare Street police station and Headquarters Traffic Guard — between K C Das and Victoria House as sparked ...
28 September 2024 The StatesmanThe demand for justice is echoing in the streets of Kolkata and another cause has been added to it now. City’s tram lovers are now demanding justice for the iconic mode of transport, which is not only a ‘relic ...
28 September 2024 The StatesmanA three-day expo to address the growing refrigeration and cold chain needs of East India will be held in Kolkata from October 3 to 5. India’s refrigeration and cold chain industry is evolving rapidly, driven by the increasing demand ...
28 September 2024 The StatesmanThe signal and telecom department of Eastern Railway’s Sealdah Division completed a series of significant works. The tasks done are aimed at bolstering safety, improving operational efficiency, and enhancing passenger convenience.According to the ER, the division has completed the ...
27 September 2024 The StatesmanOn a mission to spread happiness, the department of journalism and mass communication of Maharaja Manindra Chandra College in Kolkata, for the last 13 years, have brought smiles and laughter to hundreds of underprivileged individuals by giving away new ...
27 September 2024 The StatesmanAbhijit Mondal, officer in-charge of Tala police station was admitted to the Presidency correctional home hospital after he fell on the ground causing pain on his heels while boarding a prison van parked in front of the Sealdah court ...
27 September 2024 The StatesmanAt a time when the Union jal shakti ministry and the West Bengal government are engaging in a war of words over release of water from dams in Jharkhand, the management of Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) has decided to ...
27 September 2024 The StatesmanReacting to DVC’s decision of its employees donating a day’s salary to Chief Minister’s Relief Fund, agriculture minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay said today that the state government will not accept the donation. He, though did not rule out DVC wishing ...
27 September 2024 The StatesmanHooghly MP Rachna Banerjee visited the flood affected areas of Balagarh on Wednesday, carrying with her relief items for the affected victims.The flood-affected victims however expressed annoyance over late arrival of the Hooghly MP after the flood waters receded. ...
27 September 2024 The StatesmanAnubrata Mondal walked into the party office after two years on Wednesday, the Trinamul Congress has made it clear that the core committee will continue to run the party organization in the district.In the absence of Anubrata Mondal, the ...
27 September 2024 The StatesmanWith every passing year the number of Durga Pujas in the state is increasing and so is the demand for more power, said power minister Aroop Biswas today, while announcing the measures the government is taking ahead of the ...
27 September 2024 The StatesmanHardly five days after joining work in state-run medical colleges’ essential emergency services, the junior doctors on Thursday sent yet another email to the state chief secretary, Manoj Pant, reminding him their unresolved demands, discussed during their earlier meeting ...
27 September 2024 The StatesmanAround 30 tonnes (30,000 kg) of Bangladeshi hilsa landed at Petrapole border in North 24-Parganas today, leaded in five trucks, a day after the interim government in the country on Wednesday approved its 49 agencies to export 2420 tonnes ...
27 September 2024 The StatesmanCentral district Congress started two-day dharna programme today over R G Kar female PGT rape and murder under the leadership of new president of Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) Subhankar Sarkar.A large number of Congress workers, who considered Subhankar is ...
27 September 2024 The StatesmanThe recent heavy rains that occurred and the uncontrolled release of water from the DVC inundated large parts of Khanakul, Goghat ,Pursura and Arambagh in the Arambagh sub-division. Flood waters submerged the ground floor of pucca buildings, kuccha ...
27 September 2024 The StatesmanSyama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata (SMPK) has been recognised at Vibrant North East 2024, held in Guwahati, Assam, for its pivotal role in enhancing India’s northeastern connectivity as it has won the prestigious award for the & Best Stall ...
27 September 2024 The StatesmanChief minister Mamata Banerjee has directed to start the Joydev-Kenduli to Kolkata daily bus service of South Bengal State Transport Corporation (SBSTC) immediately.The Joydeb to Kolkata bus service has been withdrawn after 15 days.The bus service had started on ...
27 September 2024 The StatesmanDr Ananda Mondal, a doctor working in the medicine department of Rampurhat Medical College Hospital has quit from the health service job.Though the letter stated that he is leaving the job due to health reasons, sources said that due ...
27 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday claimed at a special court here that the exhibits and evidence in connection with the ghastly rape-murder of a junior doctor at R G Kar Medical College & Hospital were changed ...
27 September 2024 The StatesmanTrinamul Congress MP from Basirhat Haji Sheikh Nurul Islam passed away this morning.He is survived by his wife and children. He was 61 and suffering from an incurable disease for quite some time. He was sick when he was ...
27 September 2024 The StatesmanAt a time when controversy over alleged scams of biomedical wastes at R G Kar Hospital are making headlines, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation is considering plans to set up its own medical waste treatment plant for proper disposal of ...
27 September 2024 The StatesmanThe state government today made it clear that pujas this year would not lose its usual sheen.“The usual pomp, fervour and illumination would continue and will in no way be a scale-down affair against a narrative being tried to ...
27 September 2024 The StatesmanWhen the Border Security Force (BSF) implemented a strict “zero firing” policy during patrolling along the Indo-Bangladesh border, a troubling incident occurred yesterday, where a group of Bangladeshi miscreants allegedly abducted an Indian jawan.The BSF lodged a strong protest ...
27 September 2024 The StatesmanFormer assistant post master (APM) of Raniganj Head post Office in West Burdwan district Digvijay Chatterjee has been sentenced to three years imprisonment by the CBI Special Court in Asansol in a financial fraud incident after 18 years. The ...
26 September 2024 The StatesmanTechno India Group in collaboration with Ecole Intuit Lab (Kolkata) and Techno Main Salt Lake, hosted POSIFLY – Winds of Hope, an event where students express their creativity and positivity by crafting beautiful kites and flying them together. This ...
25 September 2024 The StatesmanAfter almost two years Anubrata Mondal has returned home in Nichupatti in Bolpur today, directly from Dum Dum airport by road in the morning along with his daughter Sukanya Mondal.Two of his former close associates, correctional home minister Chandranath ...
25 September 2024 The StatesmanIn a landmark development for the Institute of Engineering & Management (IEM) and the University of Engineering & Management (UEM), Prof Dr Biswajoy Chatterjee, vice-chancellor, UEM, Jaipur, and Prof Dr Prabir Kumar Das, head, department of basic science and ...
25 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Eastern India Regional Council (EIRC) of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) in collaboration with Shri Shikshayatan College organized Udaan – Dreams Personified, Career Pathways Expo 2024 on 21-22 September at Shri Shikshayatan College grounds.The two-day ...
25 September 2024 The StatesmanEastern Railway held a high-level meeting with MPs over Asansol & Malda Divisions network in presence of Milind Deouskar, general manager, Eastern Railway, principal heads of departments and divisional railway managers of Asansol & Malda divisions at Asansol today. ...
25 September 2024 The StatesmanAfter five rounds of lengthy discussions, the tea industry in the Terai and Dooars regions reached a consensus on a 16 per cent base rate for bonus disbursement across all tea gardens, with certain concessions granted to some estates.However, ...
25 September 2024 The StatesmanBJP leader Dilip Ghosh ridiculed the Mamata Banerjee government today in matters linked to the state’s bid to dissociate from DVC.Ghosh came to Burdwan town today to join BJP’s fortnight long ‘Seva Paksha’ programme. He said: “It’s all rubbish ...
25 September 2024 The StatesmanI know Sandip Ghosh because he and I, both are orthopaedic surgeons. I am also the chief minister’s family physician for a prolonged period of more than four decades, claimed Dr Shyama Prasad Das.In an exclusive interview to The ...
25 September 2024 The StatesmanLighting and thunder squalls since long have been playing havoc with the people of Bankura, claiming dozens of lives each year. This has prompted folk artists to come forward generating mass awareness to prevent untimely deaths.Most of the victims ...
25 September 2024 The StatesmanChief minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to hold a meeting with principals and vice-principals of all the medical colleges of the state on Thursday at Nabanna, sources at the state secretariat claimed.The meeting is also likely to be attended ...
25 September 2024 The StatesmanSix wagons of an empty goods train derailed near New Maynaguri station in West Bengal’s Alipurduar district on Tuesday morning.No casualties were reported during the incident.After the derailment, no disruption in railway services was reported.While the restoration work was ...
25 September 2024 The StatesmanChief minister Mamata Banerjee has welcomed the historic announcement of international investment by the United States of America President Joe Biden in presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in America yesterday.The United States has proposed to set up a ...
24 September 2024 The StatesmanSuri District Court has pronounced life imprisonment to 13 persons today in connection with the massacre of nine people, who have been burnt and hacked to death in Kotgram village in Mayureswar in Birbhum district after 44 years of ...
24 September 2024 The StatesmanAs the tea industry in Bengal and Assam grapples with a production crisis due to climate change, the Tea Research Association (TRA) has introduced the first climate-smart tea seed stock, TSS-2, to combat the adverse effects of rising temperatures.According ...
24 September 2024 The StatesmanUnion minister of state for education, Dr Sukanta Majumdar, today accused chief minister Mamata Banerjee of attempting to turn West Bengal into a separate entity within India.Speaking to reporters at New Jalpaiguri railway station, Dr Majumdar commented on the ...
24 September 2024 The StatesmanTrinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee sent puja gifts to the people of Diamond Harbour, his Lok Sabha constituency.Trinamul Congress workers have taken gifts and delivered them to every household.Over the years, because of tireless work of Mr ...
24 September 2024 The StatesmanThe incessant rain accompanied by uncontrolled release of water from the DVC played havoc in Arambagh sub-division. Loss of life, property and livestock were reported from Arambagh, Pursura, khanakul and Goghat. Large sections of people have been put up ...
24 September 2024 The StatesmanA day after the resignation of two state government representatives from the DVRRC committee and DVC board, Damodar valley Corporation (DVC) has released 39,000 cusecs of combined water discharge from its Maithon and Panchet dams today.Today chief minister Mamata ...
24 September 2024 The StatesmanPuja revellers in Kolkata, and districts this year would now be able to pandal hop in special buses run by the state government.The department today has decided to run special bus and ferry services named Puja Parikrama during Durga ...
24 September 2024 The StatesmanDr Avik De, one of the prime suspects facing CBI interrogations in connections with the gruesome rape and murder of the 31-year-old woman postgraduate trainee doctor, has been absent from duties in the SSKM Hospital since 8 August, a ...
24 September 2024 The StatesmanThe CBI today questioned Nirmal Ghosh for close to seven hours, the Trinamul MLA from Panihati and chief government whip of Assembly in connection with the hasty cremation of female PGT doctor at R G Kar Hospital.He was asked ...
24 September 2024 The StatesmanA division bench headed by Calcutta High Court Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam, on Monday, directed the West Bengal government to file an affidavit on the CAG report on its annual donation to different community Durga Puja committees.The court was ...
24 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Bengal government has withdrawn its representatives on the Damodar Valley Reservoir Regulation Committee (DVRRC), even as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote a second time to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Damodar Valley Corporation’s uncontrolled water release from ...
23 September 2024 The StatesmanThe 11-day sit-in protest had ended on Friday and by next day, Saturday all ‘traces’ of it were erased from the streets and walls of Salt Lake.The road in front of the Swastha Bhawan, the health department headquarters, was ...
22 September 2024 The StatesmanThe tripartite meeting called by the labour department yesterday to discuss the bonus for tea workers in the Hills ended inconclusively after a section of workers staged an agitation last night in Siliguri. The planters in the Hills had ...
22 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Immunobiology and Regenerative Medicine and Transitional Outcomes research unit of department of zoology, University of Calcutta (CU) in collaboration with BioConsort Consulting and Research LLP, startup incubated under the RUSA 2.0 entrepreneurship hub of CU recently organised a ...
22 September 2024 The StatesmanUNICEF has praised the Rupashree scheme, introduced by chief minister Mamata Banerjee for women empowerment.Trinamul Congress on its X handle wrote: “Bengal comes out on top yet again! First, Kanyashree received the prestigious UN Public Service Award. And, now ...
22 September 2024 The StatesmanAs Durga Puja is round the corner and the pre-puja crowd is already swelling with every passing day, the Sealdah Division is gearing up to handle the enormous footfall during the festive day.Aiming to accommodate a huge festive rush ...
22 September 2024 The StatesmanEven without any rain in the last three days inflow of thousands of acre-feet of water to the upper dam reservoirs continues. Senior water commission officials suspect certain ‘hidden’ feeders responsible for the flow of water to the dams.Rains ...
22 September 2024 The StatesmanThe central bureau of Investigation (CBI), probing the rape and murder of a junior doctor at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital today interrogated Birupaksha Biswas and another doctor Avik Dey, both considered close to former principal of ...
22 September 2024 The StatesmanA political battle has begun over the cause of floods in south Bengal. While chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday sent a four-page letter to the Prime Minister after visiting the flood-affected areas, claiming that this was a “man-made ...
22 September 2024 The StatesmanUnidentified assailants fired several rounds from close range at one Krishna Nunia in Chinakuri, under Kulti police station of Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) last evening.At the time of shooting, Krishna Nunia was standing beside his parked motorcycle in ...
22 September 2024 The StatesmanTwo students of Saradamoni College in Bankura have been expelled from the college allegedly for taking part in the agitation for the R G Kar trainee doctor. Both of them are students of the fifth semester of the college.Shyamal ...
22 September 2024 The StatesmanCyber crime cell of Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) raided two illegal call centres in Barachak under Asansol South police station and arrested four persons in connection with cyber fraud yesterday.Dr Arvind Kumar Anand , DC of Cyber Wing ...
21 September 2024 The StatesmanWives and relatives of police personnel, who were transferred to different districts during Lok Sabha (LS) elections around three-and-a-half months ago, urged the West Bengal Police (WBP) authorities on Friday to bring them back again to their previous places ...
21 September 2024 The StatesmanAnubrata Mondal, the Birbhum district president of Trinamul Congress has got bail from the Rouse Court in Delhi today in the cross-border cattle smuggling case by the Enforcement Department.Earlier, Anubrata Mondal has secured bail in the CBI case and ...
21 September 2024 The StatesmanTrade unions representing over 175 tea plantations in the Terai and Dooars have finally agreed to a 16 per cent bonus-cum-compensatory payment for the accounting year 2023-24.This decision was reached after an extensive bipartite meeting in Kolkata, which continued ...
21 September 2024 The StatesmanRejecting the plea of Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Supreme Court has given relief to state law minister Moloy Ghatak today in relation to the coal theft case.The Division Bench, headed by chief justice D Y Chandrachud has rejected the ...
21 September 2024 The StatesmanPrasenjit Badyakar (26) drowned at 3 No. river ghat in Shaymla Colliery of Pandaveswar police station yesterday afternoon.He was supposed to watch a football match in the neighbouring Birbhum district along with his two friends. They tried to take ...
21 September 2024 The StatesmanThe CID has arrested a Trinamul Congress councillor on serious charges of kidnapping, extortion, and fraud.According to reports, the arrested councillor’s name is Milan Sardar, who is the councillor of Ward 2 of Barasat Municipality. He was remanded in ...
21 September 2024 The StatesmanA fire broke out at a cloth shop in Durgapur Station Bazar today early this morning. Coke Oven police reached the site after being informed.Fire tenders allegedly reached the spot about-one-and-half hours late.Clothes have been burnt and the losses ...
21 September 2024 The StatesmanHardly five days after the Sunday evening rally agitating junior doctors and civil society again on Friday brought out two rallies separately in the city shouting slogans demanding justice for the gruesome incident at R G Kar Medical College ...
21 September 2024 The StatesmanThe state government has allowed entry of trucks loaded with essential commodities like vegetables, medicines, fruits, milk etc from Jharkhand to West Bengal through the Duburdih check post on NH-19, near Asansol from 4.30 pm today.The trucks carrying essential ...
21 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials probing the case of financial irregularities in state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital have secured crucial clues about how its former principal, Sandip Ghosh had illegally awarded contracts for sophisticated and ...
21 September 2024 The StatesmanAfter waiting for long for central funds to arrive for dredging and desilting of the Damodar Barrage in Durgapur, the Bengal government has ordered a state-owned company to do the job.The state has assigned the West Bengal Mineral Development ...
20 September 2024 The StatesmanDamodar Valley Reservoir Regulation Committee (DVRRC) advises all releases and has representatives from the government of West Bengal, government of Jharkhand and Central Water Commission (member secretary) and from DVC.“Protocols regarding prior intimation to all concerned authorities regarding the ...
20 September 2024 The StatesmanIn the wake of R G Kar rape and murder of a trainee doctor, a training programme was held for girls, teaching them mainly self-defence techniques and how to strengthen their minds.Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) Bengal unit just ...
20 September 2024 The StatesmanBaranagar village in Murshidabad district has been selected as the best tourism village in India in the agri-tourism village category in the Best Tourism Village competition held by the ministry of tourism.Baranagar is located at Jiaganj block and Lalbagh ...
20 September 2024 The StatesmanSomenath Debnath (28), a migrant labourer from Panita village, under Nalhati police station in Birbhum district has been allegedly murdered in Maharashtra few days ago and his family has sought justice.On 14 September, his family received a phone call ...
20 September 2024 The StatesmanAsansol North police station has arrested three persons in a case of truck hijacking from Chowringhee More on national highway 19.Dhruba Das, deputy commissioner (headquarters) of Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) has informed that a truck driver from Jamui ...
20 September 2024 The StatesmanTwo cops were injured when police visited a stop over a dispute between locals and a NVF jawans in Angadpur under Coke Oven police station.Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate sources said that a dispute was between locals and NVF jawans ...
20 September 2024 The StatesmanAgitating junior doctors on Thursday again wrote to the state chief secretary Manoj Pant requesting him to issue a directive on 15-points agendas discussed at the meeting on Wednesday late night at the state secretariat Nabanna.Or else, they would ...
20 September 2024 The StatesmanCompleting 40 years of its journey, the city’s iconic Circular Railway has seen a 200 per cent rise in passenger count over the last decade.The rail network which is a nostalgic mode of transport of Kolkata and shares the ...
20 September 2024 The StatesmanTrinamul Congress leader Asish Pande, who has been putting up at a hotel in Salt Lake since 9 August is currently under Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) scanner, which is probing the rape and murder of a junior female ...
20 September 2024 The StatesmanAiming to enhance passenger amenities in key areas such as Rampurhat, Azimganj, Malda Town and Jamalpur, the Eastern Railway has decided to augment air-conditioned and sleeper class coaches with five popular mail/express trains. According to the ER, one ...
20 September 2024 The StatesmanThough the rainfall has stopped since last night, the Damodar Valley Reservoir Regulatory Committee (DVRRC), the competent authority for releasing water from dams of River Damodar has released about 1.70 lakh cusecs of water from its Panchet and Maithon ...
20 September 2024 The StatesmanSandeep Singhania, president of the Tea Association of India (TAI), has called for urgent government intervention, warning that without timely support, the future of the north Indian tea industry is in serious jeopardy.According to Mr Singhania, the first and ...
20 September 2024 The StatesmanZero precipitation in the upper catchment and substantially reduced dam discharges by 1 lakh cusecs, loss of storage capacity of Durgapur Barrage due to siltation has led the Damodar to cause extensive devastation in the lower valley.Uncountable localities in ...
20 September 2024 The StatesmanThe West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) on Wednesday cancelled registration of Prof (Dr) Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of the R G Kar Medical College Hospital and an accused in the horrific rape-murder of the 31-year-old woman postgraduate trainee, ...
20 September 2024 The Statesman